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However, there's also the possibility that instead of doing this to piss people off, it's simply a stunt to re-introduce Kumagawa. At the expense of Emukae's importance and character.

Still horrible either way. Completely breaks the consistancy of the arc so far. Kumagawa was not even supposed to be there, and now you're going to have a fight with the character that literally can't die? Not a good trade-off.

I'd be fine with Emukae losing if it was meaningful and added to her own growth, not just to piss people off or re-introduce a popular character.

People actually like Emukae's character, what do you expect when the author treats her character like useless, disposable trash, when It's her time to fight, and up until now the Student Council has put up great fights and had decent development? We expect the members of the team to get some good development and spotlight, not just be trolled to hell and back.

Worst of all his how she loses, and how she's saved. Perhaps you simply don't care for the character enough to see how much of a disservice this is.

Spoiler for well:

Well, it's more like you guys are acting like she's being treated like trash... which I think is rather extreme.

Jesus Christ guys, what's with the overreactions to a chapter which hasn't even been translated yet. Calm the fuck down and wait until you can actually read the chapter, then think about whether it's really as bad as you thought it was.

This isn't Nishio "trolling", it's just proper story development. How would Emukae stand a chance against the strongest Suitor in the entire group? What has the Joker group been doing all this time? When would Nishio move this arc away from its current blatantly artificial standard shounen setup? These obvious questions/plotholes Nishio introduced into the story are now being answered, at pretty much just the right timing.

After all, Zenkichi and Naze, up to Emukae, are all characters people have been following for a while and have thus gotten invested in, but you didn't seriously think that even Wanizuka and Torai would get their own individual, stretched out battles did you? As an entertainer Nishio knows how to mix things up and keep things interesting; that's what he's doing right now.

Is Emukae a minor character? Hell no, she's Zenkichi's most prominent alternate love interest, right after Medaka. Practically all her continuing development, and further relevance within the series, will be centred around that theme. However, you can't expect the story to focus exclusively on that when we're right in the middle of a major arc. Who are the Kurakami clan subfamilies, and what are their goals and abilities that would allow them to take down even the most overpowered group of Medaka Box characters we have seen so far? These are the actual primary questions right now, and it'd be best not to lose sight of them, no matter how we're going through the arc.

Emukae getting effortlessly beat-down and being called useless right after a chapter that was building on her issues to then shift into a completely different battle isn't good writing, no matter how you try to spin it.

All the 'questions' you'd like anwsered aren't questions that need to be anwsered at the moment or even nescessarily pending in everyone's minds. Stretching those mysteries would've worked for the same or better effect. Like forshadowing them after a battle. What was in people's minds, is what would happen to Emukae's character development next chapter.

Anwser: useless. Has to be saved. Not to mention how Kumagawa's presence will obviously break the mood and pull attention away form the New Student Council, the characters we want to have attention currently(his character is like that. Attention just spams towards him).

Either Nishio would do that to try and troll us, the characters or just try to add something new, I can already tell from these spoilers it's not going to work. Especially when Emukae's sort of a popular character(even though she is a minor character), so treating her character this badly will amount to little.

Still though, I'm only basing my opinion off the spoiler, which hasn't been confirmed as 100% true yet. However, if it is exactly how Tenchi is describing, Nishio either hit a bad writting spot, had to form an excuse to re-introduce Kumagawa, or is just trolling.

This would be contrary to the genre - Action, School Life, Comedy, Romance. Bring at least one other example of the manga, where it happened. If this happens, it will be a drama. It is simply impossible.

I'm actually really surprised that Kumagawa showed up so soon, I expected Nisio to drag it out another 10 chapters or so without knowing what happened to the jokers, but I don't mind :3
and I actually quite like that Emukae lost miserably, I love Emukae, but I like where this is going so far~

We'll see where it goes, but honestly, the appearance of Haxxugawa really does undermine the new student council. Of course, I'm one of the few people that isn't a huge fan of Kumagawa in the first place (though he has his moments). Just looks like another Nisio troll. Moving on and not really caring anymore. The action scenes don't do much for me anyway.